Rapid counter-diabatic sweeps in lattice gauge adiabatic quantum computing

We present a coherent counter-diabatic quantum protocol to prepare ground states in the lattice gauge mapping of all-to-all Ising models (LHZ) with considerably enhanced final ground state fidelity compared to a quantum annealing protocol. We make use of a variational method to find approximate counter-diabatic Hamiltonians that has recently been introduced by Sels and Polkovnikov (2017 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 1143909). The resulting additional terms in our protocol are time-dependent local onsite y-magnetic fields. These additional Hamiltonian terms do not increase the minimal energy gap, but instead compensate for the Berry curvature. A single free parameter is introduced which is optimized via classical updates. The protocol consists only of local and nearest-neighbor terms which makes it attractive for implementation in near term experiments.